I've been sitting here this morning, doing quizzes that tell me what sort of career would suit my personality and my interests.  I've done them all before and even after doing them, I have to say, I haven't got any more of an idea about what I want to do with my life than I did beforehand.  I'm going to uni next year, it would have been this year but I took a year off after finishing year 12 so that I could work, earn some money, have a break from study and think about what it is that I really want to be doing.  I was accepted into the Arts program at a local university - which makes things even harder (but I suppose, in some ways easier) because there are so many choices with Arts and each is more different than the last.  I have always been pretty good at English and find learning languages relatively easy (maybe I speak too soon because I've never tried learning something as difficult as Mandarin, lol) I love French, Italian and SPanish in particular.  I think I'm going to do French as one of my majors...but then there are so many other things I can do as well...and in the end, if French is the only thing that I really KNOW that I want to do, what options does it give me in choosing a career path...a french teacher, a translator???

When I was in preschool and kindergarten, I wanted to be an artist - god knows why because I obviously have little talent for it - when I was about five I made some finger paintings and tried to sell them to passers-by, off a table on my driveway...I don't know whether it was that nobody much passed by, or my stick figure paintings weren't interesting enough but I don't remember selling a single one (maybe none of the neighbours learnt to appreciate abstract art done by a kinder hehe)....and my drawing hasn't really improved since back then, I can get the hang of tracing something and calling it my own, but really, my only strength is in the stick figures.

From then on I decided I wanted to be a vet.  In all honesty it probably started with a love for the cute, fluffy wittle animals, but as I grew older I never imagined myself being anything else.  I got through to year 6 and then when I went onto high school I remained convinced that that was the job for me.  If I could just work hard enough to get the marks, that would be my life.  I even did work experience at the local Vet Hospital, which I loved (even though they mostly got me to do loads of washing - of the fluffy pet blankets - and hang it out in the freezing cold at 8 in the morning while my fingers got frostbite!!).  I got to watch them operate on dogs and cats, I helped prepare the animals for surgery, hell, they even made me take a cats temperature with a thermometer (which for anyone who for some reason doesn't know how, the thermometer does not go in a cats mouth!!!)...yucky, but a part of being a vet.  As I went through high school and college, my marks were ok but not great in subjects that I needed and in the end, I got lazy and didn't get a high enough score to get into Veterinary Science - which is interstate for me anyway and moving away from home is not what i really wanted to do right now.

So for now...I don't know what I'm going to do...

I want a job that I will look forward to going to everyday, I want to spend time outdoors, I don't want to be cooped up in an office all day, I want a job where each day is different,I want to help people/animals,  I want a job that I really love, no matter how much it pays. I want to be challenged, I want to use my creative side... I want to make a difference.

I've come up with random ideas of jobs that I 'd like to have but they're all completely different and how do I know whether I really owuld enjoy it before I try it. Here are some (in no particular order):

- Veterinarian

- Teacher - most likely primary school (in a French-Australian primary school) or a French teacher in high school

- Journalist - I thought it'd be cool to write articles for a magazine, like a travel magazine or something - i love seeing different countries and different cultures.

- Diplomat

- Fashion designer - hahah as if i could ever do this, this one was a bit of a joke i suppose but i think it'd be so much fun - i've hardly done any fashion/textiles classes though, so i have nowhere to go in that direction

- Author - i love writing stories, I've always been creative but i dunno, being an author doesn't seem like a real job..

There were more but i can't be bothered to type anymore, this blog has been long enough (it's taken about 3 days to write and no doubt it will take everyone 3 days just to read through it all).

If anybody has any career ideas for me I'd love to here your suggestions...

aLi xxoo